{"id":14004,"date":"2011-02-08t10:21:59","date_gmt":"2011-02-08t10:21:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dpetrov.2create.studio\/planet\/wordpress\/use-swarm-logic-to-manage-the-diversity-of-loads-in-a-building-thereby-smoothing-demand-and-reducing-peaks\/"},"modified":"2023-02-28t18:43:44","modified_gmt":"2023-02-28t18:43:44","slug":"use-swarm-logic-to-manage-the-diversity-of-loads-in-a-building-thereby-smoothing-demand-and","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/\/www.getitdoneaz.com\/story\/use-swarm-logic-to-manage-the-diversity-of-loads-in-a-building-thereby-smoothing-demand-and\/","title":{"rendered":"use swarm logic to manage the diversity of loads in a building, thereby smoothing demand and reducing peaks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>bees function with precious little information exchanged between each other, and very small &#8220;instruction sets&#8221; encoded in their brains &#8212; no master bee shouts out orders in a command &amp; control fashion, yet the hive thrives even as bees come and go, or the weather changes, and thanks to decentralized, autonomous, independent decision-making by each bee, known as swarm logic.<\/p>\n<p>regen has encapsulated this style of control methodology so that electrical loads can now operate as a group, automatically smoothing out demand without sacrificing comfort, all by listening to each other and making independent, autonomous decisions without the need for a complex, static, command &amp; 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